Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hand In. Schmidt is still chugging away on an active schedule. Up at 6 a.m., he makes his hospital rounds, sees office patients, holds consultations until late in the day. Ten years ago he laid down his scalpel, but he still watches operations, and he likes to show that his hand is still tremor-free. He still smokes ten cigars a day, and snaps off his hearing aid when ever a physician friend needles him to cut down...
This week, network TV made the big jump from the Atlantic to the Mississippi. American Telephone & Telegraph officially opened coaxial cables between Philadelphia and Cleveland. It is now possible for a show to be telecast simultaneously over the area from Boston to Milwaukee to St. Louis and Richmond...
Rabbit & Witch. U.S. television screens also swarm with puppets, and U.S. moppets also react enthusiastically. Probably the most popular U.S. marionette is NBC's Howdy Doody,* a drawling, cow-country character who cavorts through a half-hour show with M.C. Bob Smith. In Chicago, Burr Tillstrom's Kukla, Fran and Ollie is not only the best children's show but has been called the best show of any kind on Midwestern TV. Puppets Kukla and Ollie are, respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human...
...Lucky Pup CBS has the most literate children's show on Eastern TV. A considerable part of its adult-appeal is supplied by telegenic Doris Brown, who introduces the various characters: Lucky Pup, a dog playboy with a $5,000,000 inheritance; Foodini, an evil but outstandingly inefficient magician; Pinhead, an amiable stooge, and Jolo, a clown...
...jury of selection had included only one Catholic: Jesuit Father John LaFarge, who acted as chairman. Few of the artists chosen were Catholics, either. Among them were such big names as Ivan Mestrovic-whose stilted but forceful Madonna and Child was perhaps the best sculpture in the show-and a number of accomplished craftsmen like Oronzio Maldarelli (TIME, Nov. 15). Henry Rox, who carves vegetables for a hobby, contributed a gaunt, convincingly adolescent Joan of Arc, and Helene Sardeau (Mrs. George Biddle) made the same saint look as if she had just been blackjacked...